day 15

November 15:

I am super thankful for my widow friends who have journeyed with me over the past 5 years.  

(not all are pictured)

My friendship with these ladies has probably been the most beautiful thing to grow from the ashes.

It's a blessing to sit and share conversation, 

and laughter, 

with people who 'get it'.

When they finished and fell quiet, he talked of his own losses. It was a reminder that no man was spared. What all had borne, each could bear. He shared their sorrow, and they became a part of his, and the sharing spread their grief a little, by thinning it."

-from The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings